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Democrats Try to Rescind 1963 Acts
TOFEKA —(UPI) — Democratic members of the House and Senate introduced identical resolutions today that would rescind the so-called "liberty amendments" which were adduced during the 1963 session.
The Democrats seek to have the Kansas legislature reverse its position in regard to the conservative amendments directed at congress.
One of the amendments approved last session would ask congress to amend the U.S. Constitution in such a way as to forbid federal interference in reapportionment matters.
Reps. Arden Dierdorff, R-Smith Center; Tom Crossan, R-Independence; Ed Beaman, R-Hoyt; Beatrice Jaegart, R-Satanta; Ivan Krug, R-Lacrosse; and Lawrence Elythe, R-Wal City, sponsored the resolution.
Both of the liberty amendments were sponsored last session by Lt. Gov. Harold Chase, and received narrow approval of both houses of the legislature.
A Republican-sponsored concurrent resolution was introduced in the House that would propose a constitutional amendment eliminating the budget sessions of the legislature every two years.
Another would provide that a majority of the states could amend the U.S. Constitution. At present it can only be amended by Congress, with states approval, or by a constitutional convention.
THE ENTIRE ten-man Democratic minority introduced them in the state senate.
The House version of the concurrent resolution that would rescind the two amendments was introduced by Reps. Richard Liebert, D-Montgomery county, and Thomas van Cleave. D-Kansas City.
IF APPROVED by the house and senate, the proposal would be placed on the 1964 general election ballot for a vote of the people.
If the budget sessions were eliminated, the Kansas legislature would
Western Forces Confront Home
LONDON—(UPI) —West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard called on Britain today to back U.S. proposals for a multinational nuclear force and restraints on credits for the Soviet bloc.
Informed sources said Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, holding his second day of talks with the Bonn leader, was reluctant to commit Britain on either the nuclear force or the credits question, at least before the coming general election.
THE TWO WESTERN LEADERS were completing a wide-ranging review of international problems prior to Erhard's departure for home this evening. Topping the agenda was the future of Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Douglas-Home was encouraged by Erhard's strong support yesterday of a unified Europe that includes British participation in a solid Atlantic alliance. Britain hopes to be counted in the new integration moves which Erhard plans to set in motion soon.
The German policy for an outward-looking Europe coincides with Britain's desire for close association with the continent Both, however, conflict with French President Charles de Gaulle's concept of an inward-looking European community free of dependence on the United States.
While prospects are dim for British entry into the six-nation European Common Market while De Gaulle is in power, Britain hopes, with German support, to participate at least in planning for political integration.
DE GAULLE, who wants his own nuclear deterent, opposes the U.S.-proposed mixed-manned nuclear force for NATO. West Germany backs the proposal fully and hopes Britain will participate as well to avoid a strictly bilateral nuclear arrangement between Bonn and the United States.
Britain has agreed to explore the nuclear force idea, but has shied away from any formal commitment to join.
only have to meet in general session every two years.
In the senate, Emporia Democrat Sen. Wade Meyers introduced another constitutional amendment resolution that would provide for a short ballot in state elections.
Under the short ballot proposal, only the governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general would be elective officers. The remainder would be appointed by the governor, with the exception of the state superintendent who would be named by a state board of education.
The House Ways and Means Committee introduced its first financing bill of the session.
Among appropriations in the bill were $1.1 million for district judge and stenographers salaries; $1.9 million for the state coyote bounty fund; and appropriations for the Judicial Council, Labor Department, Athletic Commission and Board of Architects.
Kennedy is expected to tell Sukarno that his policy of "Confrontation" against Malaysia, which has taken the form of terrorist raids and attacks on British and Malaysian aircraft and ships, endangers peace in Southeast Asia and could mean a cutoff of U.S. economic aid to Indonesia.
Kennedy said he wanted to discuss with Sukarno "America's concern for the relationship which now exists between Indonesia and Malaysia."
The attorney general, in his first diplomatic mission since the assassination of his brother, thanked the Japanese Japanese people for the sympathy they expressed to his family. He visited a monument to the late President Kennedy built by Japanese employees of the U.S. Kyoto Air Base, where the Kennedy party landed.
Subandrio, who is in Tokyo to aid Sukarno in the talks with the late President Kennedy's brother, said yesterday that western moves against Indonesia could force it to seek military alliances "with other powers," an apparent reference to the communist world.
Thursday, Jan. 16, 1964
INDONESIAN Foreign Minister Subandrio hinted that the eve of Kennedy's arrival that the dispute over the new British commonwealth federation bordering Indonesia might force Indonesia to seek military ties with the Communists.
The United States considers Malaysia a strong bulwark against the spread of Communism in the area. But neutralist Indonesia charges that it is a new form of British colonialism and that it threatens Indonesia, with which it shares the island of Borneo.
KENNEDY IS expected to tell Sukarno that Indonesia is losing support in the United States, particularly in Congress, which has threatened to cut off its economic aid.
Sukarno's opposition, he said, has meant that "if anything, the American public's view is tinged with more understanding and sympathy toward Malaysia."
SUKARNO, who has opposed British-backed Malaysia since its
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TOKYO — (UPI) — Atty. Gen.
Robert F. Kennedy arrived todav for talks with Indonesian President Sukarno on the Malaysia crisis but stressed that the dispute "must be decided and resolved by Asian countries, not by outsiders."
He will meet tomorrow with Sukarno to give him President Johnson's view on the Indonesian campaign against Malaysia, which is threatening the peace in Southeast Asia.
Malaysian Situation Subject of Discussions
Panama Tension Rises After Short-lived Peace
PANAMA CITY — (UPI) — The agreement between Panama and the United States appeared on the verge of collapse today, less than 24 hours after its signature.
Panama felt that the pact bound the U.S. to negotiate a revision of the 60-year-old agreement under which it controls the Canal Zone. The U.S., on the other hand, emphasized it had merely agreed to discuss the issues involved in the crisis.
There were contradictory interpretations of its terms.
STATEMENTS by Panama's President Roberto F. Chiari and Foreign
Malaysia, however, charges Indonesia with terrorist raids on its borders and with downing British and Malaysian aircraft on frontier flights.
formation last September, has vowed to eliminate it, although he insists peaceful methods will be used.
"WE HAVE a bond of friendship with Indonesia," he said. "I hope they will be able to resolve their differences in a peaceful fashion."
The attorney general emphasized that the crisis "is a matter that must be decided and resolved by Asian countries, not by outsiders."
"PRESIDENT KENNEDY talked to me frequently about visiting Japan and he looked forward very much to coming here. He felt a special relationship now existed between the American people and the Japanese people, and between the American government and the Japanese government," he added.
Kennedy, who was accompanied by his wife, Ethel, thanked the Japanese for their condolences to his family after the President's assassination.
After his brief statements on landing at the airbase at 7 p.m. (5 a.m. EST), Kennedy was driven to the black granite monument built on the base by contributions from its Japanese employees. He laid a wreath at the monument, and chatted with a third cousin stationed with the air force in Japan. He is Ist Lt. Joseph C. Kennedy, 23. Springfield, Mass.
THE TALKS with Sukarno will be held tomorrow afternoon.
Minister Galielo Solis were considered in diplomatic circles to constitute a repudiation of the agreement.
The battle of words threatened to plunge the area into new confusion even though the U.S. army returned control of the zone to American civilian authorities today indicating the reestablishment of law and order after a week of turmoil and violence.
Panamanian insistence that the U.S. spell out now its willingness to negotiate a new canal treaty contributed to uneasy tension throughout Panama City.
PRESIDENTIAL PRESS secretary Fabian Velarde said specifically Panama will not resume relations with the U.S. unless the government of the U.S. assures Panama that it will initiate negotiations for a new treaty to substitute those in existence.
Peace returned to the troublele zone at 8 a.m. when U.S. army troops were withdrawn from border positions and authority returned to civilian Gov. Robert J. Fleming Jr.
At the same time, rumors circulated Panama had demanded recall of the American embassy staff and was bringing home its diplomats from Washington. In Washington, the state department said it had not heard such reports.
The United States had agreed after a 90-hour negotiating session yesterday that all outstanding issues between the two nations would be discussed once relations were resumed. Panama, in turn, said it would restore the diplomatic break.
THE AGREEMENT did not mention the canal specifically, but the implication was clear since the issue of Panamanian sovereignty in the canal zone brought about last week's rioting and the break in relations.
President Roberto F. Chiari last night demanded that the United States promise new negotiations on the 1903 canal agreement.
Presidential Press Secretary Fabian Velarde released the text of a statement Chiari made to an anti-American crowd of 2,000 to 3,000 students who had marched a mile and a half to the Panamanian "White House" chanting "We don't want (dinamatic) relations."
"THE GOVERNMENT of Panama will not resume diplomatic relations with the United States until the U.S. government gives the Panamanian government assurances that it will begin negotiations for a new treaty to replace those existing" the statement said.
This was a clear reference to the 60-year old treaty giving the United States permanent control of the Panama Canal and a zone extending for five miles on both sides of the inter-ocean waterway.
The United States agreed early yesterday to begin negotiations on "all existing matters" at issue with Panama—undoubtedly including the canal treaty—30 days after relations are resumed. It was not certain immediately whether Washington would yield to Chiari's new demand.
(THE U.S. STATE department declined comment.)
The student marchers echoed the opposition to renewed ties with the United States which was voiced yesterday by the popular Socialist (Communist) party and various newspaper columnists.
The anti-American demonstration was noisy, but there were no reports of violence.
Among the statements opposing renewal of relations published here yesterday was a letter from former Foreign Minister Octavio Fabrega saying there is no hurry about the diplomatic move and adding that "assurances that the (canal) treaty will be revised should be completely spelled out."
(IN NEW YORK, Panama's U.N. delegate Aquilino Boyd said his country's charge of "aggression" against the United States—shelved last week by the Security Council—will not be withdrawn formally until there is a final solution of differences between the two countries.)
In Colon, at the Atlantic end of the canal, funeral services were held yesterday for three Panamanians among the 21 persons killed in last week's anti-American riots.
The dead were an army Sergeant, a 16-year-old student and a 16-month-old girl who the Panamanians said were shot by US soldiers.
KU Student Injured
FRED Lindskog, Overland Park freshman, suffered a slight concussion and lacerations of the head when he fell today while exercising with weights in Ellsworth Men's Residence Hall.
A spokesman at Watkins Memorial Hospital said Lindsborg was in good condition and would probably be released this afternoon.
Wescoe Judges Past; Sees Future
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Chancelor W. Clarke Wesoe took time from a full schedule yesterday to look back on the semester and to look ahead to the semesters to come.
"It has been a busy and, I think quite successful semester," Dr Wescoe said.
Although the chancellor did not point to any administration achievement that stands above any other, he said everything has functioned quite smoothly.
"I HAVE HAD more contact with students this semester than I have had before, and this please me," he said. "There have been both official and unofficial contacts. I have been happy with both kinds.
"Higher education is the key to the way that Kansas moves forward," Dr. Wescoe said. "Kansas doesn't have a more important problem. The key to economic development rests on an excellent system of education at all levels."
The chancellor said he saw Congress' passage of bills to assist the financing of construction of certain types of structures as "a boon to KU. They will allow us more readily to meet the building requirement of our expanding enrollment."
Dr. Wescoe said the final plans
"We must use our funds as economically as possible," he said. "We cannot afford to delay the construction of much needed facilities that would house many more activities."
FRASER HALL. Dr. Wescoe said, has no chance of being saved. He said it would cost about $4.5 million to repair Fraser, the oldest building on campus.
for a new Robinson Gymnasium are now being drawn. Money for the project will be available July 1 and bids will be sought at that time. It will be located across the street from Summerfield Hall on ground now used for intramural athletics.
He said a new building twice the size of Fraser would cost about $2 million.
much as possible with existing campus buildings, Dr. Wescoe said. He pointed out, however, that one of the beauties of the KU campus is that its buildings follow no patterned architecture.
AS FOR OLD BLAKE HALL, the chancellor said that it was little more than an architectural facade.
"A distinguished architect told me last year that it would have been a pretty job. It had finished and placed where it could be seen," the chancellor said.
The south side of old Blake was never completed. he said.
The new Blake Hall, now under construction at the old building's site, has been designed to fit in as
Turning to a lighter subject, Dr. Weacoe said he thought "the first issue of the Jayhawker is wonderful. I was particularly impressed with the ad section."
He said he felt that some of the party pictures are questionable. "I he said.
have always felt that humor doesn't have to have a double meaning." The chancellor's views on other subjects:
- The recent announcement by a blue-ribbon federal panel that smoking is a definite health hazard: "The facts cannot be denied. I am in agreement with the statement of the committee as released. Mature people have to make their own decisions. I would advise any young person not to smoke."
- KU students' reactions to the assassination of President Kennedy: "It was the kind of reaction that could have been anticipated. He was quite an important influence on youth and the academic community. He was close to education and a scholarly person himself."